Francisco Vidal Luna

Brazil Since 1980

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This is a general survey of Brazilian society, economy, and political system since 1980. It describes the basic changes occurring as Brazil was transformed from a predominantly rural and closed economy under military rule into a modern democratic, industrial and urbanized society, with an extraordinary world class commercial agriculture in the past 60 years. In this period, Brazil passed from a pre-modern high fertility and mortality society to a modern low fertility and mortality one, the economy approached hyper inflation many times, and it abandoned a policy of protected industrialization to an economy opened to world trade. The advances a… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Klein, Herbert

ISBN: 978-0-521-52744-6
EAN: 9780521527446
Produktnummer: 2255406
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 282 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 437 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 437

Über den Autor

Francisco Vidal Luna is Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Sao Paulo, and the Secretary of Planning and Budget of the Municipality of Sao Paulo. He has written extensively on Brazilian economic history and the Brazilian economy, and he is coauthor, with Herbert S. Klein, of Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850 (2003). Herbert S. Klein is Director of the Center For Latin American Studies, Professor of History, and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Atlantic Slave Trade (Cambridge, 1999), A Concise History of Bolivia (Cambridge, 2003), and A Population History of the United States (Cambridge, 2004).